| Show EFFECTS OF SPRINGS WEATHER Hit Made Much Mud and Sent Great Quantities It Into the Homes of the City Through the Water Pipes S S Yesterday was Just too lovely for anything nice and warm and spring like There were almost birds The dcnrgIrlH began tp talk of spring hats and shirt waists and lakes and sloh The boys spoke of recreation One said he felt itS 1C he would like to go out to some creek Hit on the bank and dabble with his large and Interesting feet In the summery wptcr while another mentioned men-tioned that lie could throw a baseball from Second South to the Brigham Young status and a third spoke of having hav-ing a tired summer feeling but this was nothing unusual for the man who had it lie has been nflllcted the same way all winter Anyway Jt was a beautiful day and brought out large crowds The sun was bright and warm and the air Just reeked of balm There was another and darker side to the picture however dark brown side mud There was latdilnu of it Not the orthodox mud which compels one to carry a homestead on each foot but a foreign sort of mud II was mud which could not be classified neither nei-ther water although It lowed nor land althoughIt was earthy It was a medium me-dium and not a happy one The melting melt-Ing snow on the streets and foothills caused U Millions of gallon of the stuff flowed down the gutters Into the Jordan and thence to the lake which may be a dirty old thing all summer as a result The streets especially In the southeastern part of time city were In what might be called an awful condition con-dition and thats giving them some the best of It Streams of the stuff flowed along the gutters along the car tracks and over the sidewalks TCUIIIH had to be driven through the stuff and unlucky people had to wade through It The foot sank Into It with a mutter something some-thing like wnlp and came out saying chllp little globules flying far upward up-ward Into space to return and alight cither on the person sending them up or on someone else In the neighborhood It Is not thought any of thun were wasted Average samples taken In the section mentioned showed the usual depth to bo about tMx Inches For purposes pur-poses of consolation It may be stated that this will all dry up before August Au-gust 0 < I The city water was like Missouri river riv-er water that Is It was too thick to drink and too thin to plough This condition was caused by water from the rapidlythawing snow gathering In the roadways and elsewhere until It hroke Into the main channels of the streams canning iith It largo quantities quanti-ties of mud and debris The Parleys creek supply has been shut out of tile mains since Monday and the system Is being fed from City creek which Is much clearer than Parleys That Par leys water must be Interesting to look at No snowslldcs or landslides were reported from cither Parleys or City Creek canyons |
